Legislative Update: Getting to Progress on Climate Goals
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S.B. 526 calls for a State Mobility Action Plan for Healthy Communities, and for realigning transportation funding with state climate goals.
Eyes in the Cab: A Ride-Along with a BART Operator
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To celebrate transit driver appreciation day, Streetsblog takes a run with a BART operator
Trump Administration Continues Funny Business with Transit Funding
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About $2.7 billion in funds for transit projects remains in a state of limbo at the Trump U.S. DOT.
Today’s Headlines
|- Protected bike lanes completed in SF in record time (Curbed)
- Lyft would prefer you take a scooter (Bloomberg)
- Federal bill would consider “freedom”–accessibility–as measure of success for transit projects (Human Transit)
- Why bicycling has “flatlined” (The Dirt)
- Long Beach Transit brings on a partner to provide transpo to Las Vegas (Daily Breeze)
- Air pollution hampers kids’ lung development (CityMetric)
- Farmers in Ohio notice that the climate is changing, but call it “weather weirding,” not climate change (Farm and Dairy)
- Orinda City Council to discuss regional housing plan, which might force it to allow more housing (SFgate)
- Why it’s a bad idea for cities to give tech companies incentives to build (CityLab)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
SGV Connect 38 – Gotcha Comes to the San Gabriel Valley
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Shared-use mobility company Gotcha announced a partnership with the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments to bring a regional, 1,000-bike, bike-share system to a dozen cities.
Safety Advocates Rip City’s Vision Zero Strategy
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Advocates say without metrics, transit improvements, and rock-solid commitments, San Francisco's Vision Zero plan is destined to fail
Today’s Headlines
|- Driver runs over girl, police blame “glare” (CBS Local)
- Protecting clean car, fuel standards is a moral imperative (Napa Valley Register)
- How clean air transformed American cities (Salon)
- Deadly air: the invisible killer (The Guardian)
- Scooters and data (LA Times)
- Trump removes protections on federal lands, opens them to oil, gas, coal extraction (Axios)
- San Francisco could tax Uber and Lyft rides (SF Chronicle)
- Desire paths: Pedestrians are gonna go where they wanna go (Mother Nature Network)
- Photos from the North American Handmade Bike Show in Sacramento (Cycling Tips)
- Wildflowers bring unruly, destructive crowds (Sacramento Bee)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
New Transit Housing Bill Racks up Endorsements
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San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener's latest transit-oriented housing bill, SB 50, the More HOMES Act, is gaining momentum and endorsements
Study: Better Transit Raises Property Values, Lowers Poverty
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A Cleveland study found neighborhoods that added transit service was a 3.5-percent increase in property values and a 13-percent decline in poverty.
Today’s Headlines
|- Application deadline extended for ATP technical assistance (Safe Routes to Schools)
- Claiming that widening a highway will reduce emissions, without data (City Observatory)
- Berkeley planners call for more signs and paint as city grapples with spike in drivers hitting pedestrians and bicyclists (Berkeleyside)
- Redding plans electric express bus service to Sacramento airport; may run diesel until it can work out infrastructure needs (Redding Searchlight)
- Berkeley to study expanded ferry service (Berkeleyside)
- Riverside County decides it doesn’t need emergency call boxes anymore (Press Enterprise)
- California Transportation Commission awards money to study Highway 1 bypass at Last Chance Grade (Lost Coast Outpost)
- Oregon tries to make a highway widening look good for pedestrians (it isn’t) (City Observatory)
- The case against lawns is strong (Curbed)
- Building Trades Council says don’t drop high-speed rail (CALmatters)
- BART says technology fixes will prevent future “meltdowns” like last Saturday’s (SF Chronicle)
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
The Craziest Anti-Bike Lane Arguments We’ve Heard
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Professional bike advocates have heard some wild excuses not to build bike lanes. Here's a video of their all-time favorites.